About.Using time-tested methods and techniques from the theater, Steven Maler works with speakers to achieve the same organic and effortless authenticity of great actors.
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Steven Maler
Steven Maler is a speech consultant; freelance theatre, opera, and film director; and the founding Artistic Director of award-winning Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC), which annually presents free productions of Shakespeare on the Boston Common.
He specializes in utilizing techniques for training actors and singers to strengthen the presentation skills of business leaders. Consulting clients include high profile CEOs and political leaders, as well as corporate and non-profit organizations including YouTube, The Rockefeller Foundation, USAID, and Human Rights Campaign. He frequently collaborates with Hattaway Communications, one of the nation's preeminent communications firms. |
For CSC, he has directed over nineteen productions, which have been seen by more than one million people. He has worked with some of America's most extraordinary actors, including Seth Gilliam, James Waterston, Jeffrey Donovan, Jay O. Sanders, and Anthony Rapp.
Mr. Maler's opera credits include the American Premiere of Peter Eötvös' operatic treatment of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA and Thomas Ades' POWDER HER FACE for Opera Boston. For New England Conservatory, he has staged DIDO AND AENEAS and DIE FLEDERMAUS.
He is the director of WITHOUT YOU, a musical memoire written by and starring Anthony Rapp, which has performed in Boston, New York, Seoul, Toronto, Edinburgh, and London.
His feature film, THE AUTUMN HEART, starring Tyne Daly and Ally Sheedy, was in the Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award at The Nantucket Film Festival. It was released in September 2000.
He is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a John Motley Morehead Scholar.
Mr. Maler's opera credits include the American Premiere of Peter Eötvös' operatic treatment of Tony Kushner's ANGELS IN AMERICA and Thomas Ades' POWDER HER FACE for Opera Boston. For New England Conservatory, he has staged DIDO AND AENEAS and DIE FLEDERMAUS.
He is the director of WITHOUT YOU, a musical memoire written by and starring Anthony Rapp, which has performed in Boston, New York, Seoul, Toronto, Edinburgh, and London.
His feature film, THE AUTUMN HEART, starring Tyne Daly and Ally Sheedy, was in the Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival and won the Audience Choice Award at The Nantucket Film Festival. It was released in September 2000.
He is a graduate of the American Repertory Theatre Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he was a John Motley Morehead Scholar.